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Bing For The Mobile

Bing users will be happy to hear that Microsoft has released Bing Mobile for those looking to Bing while on the go. And from the looks of things, it appears that Bing Mobile provides the full functionality of the Bing search engine.
Where Bing really steps it up, is for touch devices. Likely being aimed at [...]

Smart Search Results Please

Are quality search results just too much to ask for? According to this article, one might easily come to this conclusion sooner rather than later. The problem is despite advancements given, some search engines remains better than others depending on the query.
Even then, those other search engines that provides results from everywhere are not really [...]

Real Time Headaches

Yes, because clearly the solution to my search queries are going to come from the mindless updates from Facebook. Really? Is this a worthy addition to Bing’s otherwise usable search functionality.
I would point out that the same thing applies to Twitter as well. A great way to communicate, but there is no way that I [...]

Bing-Hoo Deal Called Into Question With Google Looking On

I really don’t believe that there is any way that Google is taking the news of the Yahoo!-Microsoft deal without a fight. Perhaps not so much in the public light, but behind the scenes, at some basic level.
The thing is that while Bing-Hoo is hardly a threat to the mind share that is Google, it [...]

Bing Growth Not All That Impressive

I don’t think that there is any question that Bing is one of the best things that Microsoft has done in a long time. That being said, however, I simply do not feel that Bing is anywhere near being in a position to yet pose a real threat to Google. It just does not seem [...]

Stealing From Google Via A Botnet

I really wish people would be more careful with their Windows PCs. Seriously, there is just no excuse to allow your machine to become a part of a botnet unwittingly these days. Yet despite my feelings on the matter, they are still very much a part of our lives.
In this article, we begin to see [...]

Crawl On My Ajax

So while the above title might sound a bit off, the fact of the matter is this is exactly what some people are wondering. Should search engines begin crawling Ajax pages?
Google maintains the argument that if we did support Ajax web crawling, it would significantly improve the web and search as we know it. After [...]

Stumble Me This One

Never been a big fan of the idea behind the social search engine. However looking at what StumbleUpon (SU) has for its own capabilities, maybe I am being a bit harsh here. Or am I?
The problem is that most people using a search engine do so looking to find out about specific info. And while [...]

Microsoft Brings Voice Bing

As this article points out clearly enough, Bing now allows mobile users to use mobile search with their voices, much like you might see with Google and have seen for sometime now.
So here’s the rub, despite what the article claims about Google being first to market on this voice search functionality, the fact is that [...]

Ask Goes To The Coupons

In this economy, now bundled with new competition from other search engines as Bing/Yahoo and Google fight it out, I cannot help but wonder where in the world this leaves Ask.com?
Unless you have a preference for their offerings or a tool bar installed, I fail to get exactly where their future is? Then I came across [...]

Is Google Safe From Others?

Is Google going to maintain their market share for long? With Microsoft raging behind the scenes unlike anything I have seen before, it is beginning to look like Google may need to step up their game a bit.
With Google cleaning up things with junk landing pages in AdWords, further closing the clamps on AdSense, in [...]

Microsoft Deserves A Thumbs Up For Bing PSAs

It is not all that often that I find myself in a position where Microsoft does something really cool. But the news of Bing offering PSA alerts about potential scams when end users are doing a query for something such a business opportunities, I find myself liking what I see.
Educating people on the various scams [...]

Chasing Bing: The Truth Behind The Hype

In recent weeks, we’ve noticed a surge in clients calling us to ask questions like “what’s up with Bing?” Or, “are you optimizing for Bing?” Even “are you taking advantage of Bing?”
In other words, people want to know that their search engine optimization company is taking special steps to ensure adequate representation on the newly [...]

Google Is On The Hunt For Yahoo Talent

Not entirely sure why this makes a lot of sense? While I can see Google seeking out other levels of talent from Yahoo, I am not really sure “search” is an area I would be recruiting for in the Yahoo space if I was Google?
So while Google recruiting these guys makes zero sense to me, Ask.com [...]

Bing Is Becoming A Lot More Visual

I have said it once, I will say it again. If Bing can get a better handle on providing results that are honestly more relevant than Google, then Google is in deep trouble. Luckily this has not happened just yet.
Despite Bing not quite hitting the mark just yet, I think this article demonstrates just how [...]

Bing Part Deux - This Time, It’s Really Bingy

While I am still not a Bing user myself as I have not seen clear advantage personally, I have seen an increase to my wife’s blog recently. This is a good thing, assuming folks are actually coming from the search engine.
So when I heard that Bing 2.0 is just around the corner, naturally I was [...]

Fake Referrers With Bing Continues

So is Microsoft just lazy, clueless or simply not care? I mean, this fake referrer issue is hardly news - its been a problem for what this article describes as a couple of years now!
Not only is this annoying to web masters, it is just plain counterproductive. How is this a problem exactly? Imagine your [...]

Wolfram Alpha Goes Bing In The Night

Wolfram Alpha at this stage might not seem like a whole heck of a lot to look at, but clearly Microsoft’s Bing has their eye on it and that is something we should all be paying attention to. There is no question that to a degree, Google has hit the search wall.
Yes, they remain the [...]

Yahoo Is BOSS After All

Despite the success of Google’s Custom search, it seems that many are flocking to Yahoo’s BOSS option for something even more customizable. Using Yahoo’s own search APIs, BOSS allows its users to take the power of Yahoo Search and implement it in with their own content.
The biggest selling point for using BOSS is the fact [...]

Bing: Should Google Be Worried?

People are definitely wondering if Google needs to be more worried about Bing? After reading the article linked above, along with others, I am among those considering the fact that Google is not responding quickly enough.
Not too long back, I had an individual tell me that relevance in a query is not as important as [...]

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